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Has anyone ever used a router as a file server?
LockedDuring discussions at work, I had the privilege of talking to a fellow geek(the more I can make it do the better type) and we started talking about file servers. He runs a system at home that use’s a router and the firmware tomato http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato. This caught my interest because I do have a spare router floating around. Unfortunately, it is not in the list of supported routers for tomato.
But this intrigues me for a couple reasons. I can’t imagine the power requirements being as much as say my amd 2000 box. The only job this does is what you tell it to do. Shoot, I can even see this as a really nice firewall solution if the firmware supports ipw firewalls. Id love to be able to implement a cheep firewall solution in front of my wireless router. And if I could ssh into the router(which he says you can), I could use winsscp to transfer my master blacklists to the firewall.
For file server purposes:
1). Your drives would be connected via usb… If the router doesn’t accept usb, you can get adapters.
2). You can setup file shares just like you would do in samba.
3). The router would have its own ip address, because I would take it it is hanging off another router.This truly intrigues me… If I didn’t have a file server already set up, I would go buy one of these routers to try this. Still might to be truthful, and make my bsd box a total test machine.
Dan